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Wehmeyer, Michael L. – Teachers College Press, 2019
Michael Wehmeyer, a leading scholar with over four decades of experience as a teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate, provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, he notes how the digital revolution has made it…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Student Characteristics, Student Needs, Individualized Instruction
Elizabeth Ross Hubbell; Bryan Goodwin – McREL International, 2019
More than likely, your school is doing the right things. So why won't student achievement budge? Maybe the key is doing the right things "right." You may be lacking a straightforward yet powerful tool that can work wonders in aligning expectations and talents: an instructional model. In this eye-opening new book, visionary education…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Methods, Instructional Design, Planning
Fraser, James W.; Lefty, Lauren – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018
As recently as 1990, if a person wanted to become a public school teacher in the United States, he or she needed to attend an accredited university education program. Less than three decades later, the variety of routes into teaching is staggering. In "Teaching Teachers," education historians James W. Fraser and Lauren Lefty look at…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Teacher Education
Seider, Scott; Graves, Daren – Harvard Education Press, 2020
"Schooling for Critical Consciousness" addresses how schools can help Black and Latinx youth resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes. Scott Seider and Daren Graves draw on a four-year longitudinal study examining how five different mission-driven urban high schools foster critical consciousness among…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, African American Students, Racial Bias, Social Justice
Jung, Lee Ann; Frey, Nancy; Fisher, Douglas; Kroener, Julie – ASCD, 2019
"Your Students, My Students, Our Students" explores the hard truths of current special education practice and outlines five essential disruptions to the status quo. Authors Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Julie Kroener show you how to: (1) Establish a school culture that champions equity and inclusion; (2) Rethink the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Inclusion, Special Education, School Culture
Martin, Doug – Trentham Books, 2016
At a time when the memory of Every Child Matters and Extended Schools is fading fast, when the policy agenda has returned with a vengeance to an exclusive concern with governance, choice, regulation, and performance, when the school seems more than ever to be viewed by government as primarily a business selling exam results--we should remember…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, School Community Relationship, Agency Cooperation
Tucker, Marc – ASCD, 2019
Did you know that close to half of today's jobs in the U.S. could be done by robots and that proportion is rapidly increasing? It is quite possible that about half of today's high school graduates will not have the knowledge or skills needed to get a decent job when they graduate. Tomorrow's high school graduates will be able to thrive in this…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Educational Methods, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
Zhao, Yong; Emler, Trina E.; Snethen, Anthony; Yin, Danqing – Teachers College Press, 2019
Discover how education innovations can produce astonishing results in student success both in and out of school. The educators featured in this book were motivated by the conviction that even the best status quo education was not serving current student needs. They responded with radical changes that tap into recent ideas about educational…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Student Centered Learning
Sutherland, Helen, Ed.; Mukadam, Yasmin, Ed. – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018
Offering an in-depth exploration of the distinctive features of the play development and learning of toddlers, this book provides useful materials, strategies and tools that can be used by practitioners supporting toddlers at this significant age. The book explores the context and concepts of wellbeing and is ideal for early years practitioners,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Well Being, Child Development, Play
Driscoll, David P. – Harvard Education Press, 2017
"Commitment and Common Sense" tells the inside story of how Massachusetts became a national model for education. Twelve years after the passage of the state's comprehensive education reform law in 1993, Bay State student scores rose to the top of "the nation's report card" (the National Assessment of Educational Progress) in…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Achievement Gains, State Standards, Scores
Romero, Victoria E.; Robertson, Ricky; Warner, Amber – Corwin, 2018
Nearly half of all children have been exposed to at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE), such as poverty, divorce, neglect, homelessness, substance abuse, domestic violence, or parent incarceration. These students often enter school with behaviors that don't blend well with the typical school environment. How can a school community come…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Environment
Burns, Tracey; Köster, Florian; Fuster, Marc – OECD Publishing, 2016
Governing multi-level education systems requires governance models that balance responsiveness to local diversity with the ability to ensure national objectives. This delicate equilibrium is difficult to achieve given the complexity of many education systems. Countries are therefore increasingly looking for examples of good practice and models of…
Descriptors: Governance, Case Studies, School Administration, Best Practices
D'Arcy, Kate – Trentham Books, 2014
Elective home education (EHE) is a legal alternative to school in England but the statutory requirements for provision are remarkably vague. This book explores the use of EHE by Gypsy and Traveller families. The accounts of their experiences and their views about education spaces reveal the racism and discrimination their children encounter in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Minority Groups, Racial Bias
Hazel, Cynthia E. – APA Books, 2016
Positive youth development is a strengths-based, positive psychology approach to fostering adolescents' educational engagement and achievement. It focuses not just on students' academic development but also on their vocational, social, and emotional development. The positive youth development philosophy is at the heart of Cynthia Hazel's unique…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach, Social Development
National Academies Press, 2016
The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life." These forces and systems include economic policies, development agendas, cultural and social norms, social policies,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Barriers, Social Influences, Professional Education
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